• University of Reading (87-90%)
• University of Hong Kong (88%-91%) 

In May and Jun 2007, a market survey was carried out with 27 major employers both from the public and private sectors in Singapore, with advice from the NTU Career Attachment Office. These employers include Ministry of Education, Singapore National Employers Federation, Singapore HR Institute, Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mediacorp, Standard and Poors, JP Morgan Chase and Singapore Press Holdings. Of those who responded, an overwhelming majority (93% - 100%) find that graduates who understand the workings of different cultures and languages, and who have a global worldview and international experience are valuable assets to their companies. Graduates with multidisciplinary analytical skills, as of those from the LMS programme are certainly thought to be important by the potential employers. It was generally agreed that Linguistics and Multilingual Studies graduates, with their skill sets, are highly employable.

Career Opportunities for LMS Graduates

• Work in the computer industry: Linguists and Multilingual experts may work on speech recognition, search engines, and artificial intelligence. Their skills are also required in Internet start-up or e-commerce where expertise in how natural language processing can get systems to respond more meaningful to searches and requests.
    
• Work in education:  People with a background in LMS and education develop curricula and materials, train teachers, and design tests and other methods of assessment, especially for language arts and second language learning.
    
• Teach languages: Training in LMS provides a solid foundation for anyone who is comtemplating a career in language teaching. It gives them fundamental training to make cross language comparison to arrive at solutions, a critical aspect in multilingual societies such as Singapore. A degree in LMS is an excellent entry point for a Postgraduate Diploma in Education.
    
• Work as a translator or interpreter: Skilled translators and interpreters are needed everywhere, from government to hospitals to courts of law. For this line of work, a high level of proficiency in the relevant language(s) is necessary, and specialised training is required. LMS can help students understand the issues that arise when a message is communicated from one language to another.
     
• Work on language documentation or do fieldwork: A number of projects and institutes around the world are looking for linguists and Multilingual experts to work with language consultants to document, analyse, and preserve languages (many of which are endangered). Some organisations engage in language-related fieldwork, including documenting endangered languages, conducting language surveys, establishing literacy programs, and translating documents of cultural heritage.
     
• Work in the publishing industry, as a technical writer, or an editor: The verbal and cultural skills that LMS graduates develop are ideal for positions in editing, publishing, and writing.
     
• Work for a testing agency: LMS graduates can also help prepare and evaluate standardised exams and conduct research on assessment issues. They can be more attuned to problems which are specific to Multilingual communities as tests are often designed for more monolingual populations.
     
• Work with dictionaries (lexicography): Knowledge of phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics is key to becoming a lexicographer.
         
• Become a consultant on language in professions such as law or medicine: The subfield of forensic linguistics involves studying the language of legal texts, linguistic aspects of evidence, issues of voice identification, and so on. Law enforcement agencies and police departments, law firms, and the courts hire linguists for these purposes.
      
• Marketing and advertising: As LMS graduates are trained to be sensitive to language and cultural nuances, they are sought after in the field of marketing and advertising. For example, companies that name products do extensive linguistic and cultural research on the associations that people make with particular sounds and classes of sounds. A background in LMS qualifies students for this line of work.